On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 12:04:19PM +0200, Götz Reinicke wrote: > Hi, > > in the last week and today again our PE1750 with raid 1, dual CPU > freezes. The OS is RHEL 4 with kernel-smp-2.6.9-34.EL. We used > kernel-smp-2.6.9-22.0.1.EL before and AFAIK there where no freezes. > > A couple of days before the freezing starts, we changed one defect > harddisk and rebuildet the raid with a new harddisk from dell. Other > hardware/software wasn't changed > > Any ideas? > > May 10 06:30:09 mail kernel: CPU: 3 > May 10 06:30:09 mail kernel: EIP: 0060:[<c0185420>] Tainted: P > VLI What module are you using that's tainting your kernel? I found that using a third-party MPPE module (now included with the kernel proper) would cause kernel panics like this when in SMP mode. Running in single processor mode fixed the problem. Fortunately we didn't really need that second CPU anyways. Ray -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
